AOC 2025 December 9-11 Washington

Tuesday, December 9

AOC 2025: Opening Keynote – Laurie Moe Buckhout

AOC 2025: Symposium Spotlight – Strategic Vision for EW in 2035 (DOTMLPF-P Focused)

Technical Briefings

Enabling Distributed, Low SWaP-C RESM for Information Superiority in Modern Operational Environments

Jonathan Roe, CEO ESROE Limited

New Compact Sensor Technologies that Enable RF ISR-T From Small UAS in Denied Environments

Martin Rofheart, CEO Applied Signals Intelligence

Wednesday, December 10

AOC 2025: Keynote Session – The Honorable Don Bacon

Breakout Session

EMSO Capabilities for Countering Collaborative sUAS Threats

Dr. David Stoudt, Executive Director, Directed Energy Professional Society

Achieving Decision Making Superiority Based on EMS Superiority

Lieutenant Colonel Masuhisa Domen, Air Staff Office, Japan Air Self Defense Force, Japan Ministry of Defense

WHY THIS REFORM, WHAT IS CHANGING, AND WHY NOW?

Brigadier General Kevin Chaney, Capability Program Executive, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (CPE IEW&S)

Program Manager Briefing Series

Viewing EMSO From Cyberspace in ’26

Dr. Nathaniel Husted, Chief Scientist for Cyber and Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) Technologies, Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)

Enabling Navy Readiness Through Real-Time Test Innovation

Wade Lowdermilk, Chief Technology Officer, Tevet

Breakout Session

How OTAs Propel EW Innovation for the US Warfighter

Mike Brockly, Vice President of Operations & Strategy, NSTXL

Technical Briefings

Real-Time Cognitive Electronic Warfare: Overcoming Data Challenges with Generative AI and Edge Computing

Dr. Kyle Davidson, President Agile Electromagnetics

Automation of Electronic Attack Generation Using AI

Dr. Hal Aldridge, CEO Secmation

Generative Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Radar and Communications Electronic Warfare Applications

Dr. Mohin Ahmed, Senior Research Scientist, HRL Laboratories

Breakout Session

17E EW Pentathlete + Skill Convergence

Colonel John J. Hosey, Chief of Cyber and Commandant, US Army Cyber

Recruitment and Training

Colonel Stephen Miller, USAF (Ret.) Principal Research Engineer, Branch Head, Electronic Warfare Test and Training (EWTT) Branch, Georgia Tech Research Institute

Lessons learned about Russian EW

Jack De Santis, CEO Omira Systems

Program Manager Briefing Series

Resilient PNT

Tristan Caruso, Chief Engineer, Air Force Lifecycle Management Center, Combat Avionics Division (AFLCMC/HBC)

Thursday, December 11

AOC 2025: Keynote Session – Lieutenant General Paul T. Stanton

Technical Briefings

Enhancing EW and Radar Systems with Microwave Photonics

Charles Middleton, Chief Technology Officer, Critical Frequency Design

The Promise and Challenge of Heterogeneous Silicon for Multifunction Systems

Jason T. Timpe, System Architect Fellow, Radar/EW, Advanced Micro Devices

Pushing the Limit: Embedded Intelligence and the Physics of SWaP in Future SIGINT Systems

Aram Grigoryan, Regional Account Manager, Ace Embedded

Breakout Session

The Spectrum Imperative

Nathan Mintz, CEO, CX2

Closing Spotlight Session

AOC 2025: Closing Symposium Spotlight Session

Deployment of Tested EW Solutions in Ukraine – Implications for the Defense Strategies of Japan as Part of the Broader Ramifications in the Region of Indo-Pacific

Rene D. Kanayama, Senior Researcher Institute ITSTIME, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart